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What happens without a will?

It may surprise you what will happen to your estate if you die without a will. One might assume that all of their worldly assets would go directly to their spouse. While this may be your intention the laws in the state you live in determine the exact distribution of your estate if you do not have a will. It also may surprise you that in Connecticut the estate does not all automatically go to the spouse.

Connecticut’s laws of “intestacy.”

How Is the Property Distributed When There Is No Will?

If the decedent is survived by:

Spouse, and children* of both decedent and spouse – Spouse takes first $100,000, + 1/2 of the remainder. Children* take the other 1/2.

Spouse, and children* of decedent, one or more of whom is not the child of the spouse – Spouse takes 1/2. All the children* share the other 1/2 equally.